Erik Castren Institute for International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 4 (Yliopistonkatu 3), Room 617, 00014 University of Helsinki
Helsinki
Finland
- Democracy and community development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Research
- Youth and education
Individual member, senior researcher in the field of anthropology with the specialisation on human rights, human rights education, NGOs, minorities, anti-terrorism, suicide bombing, immigration law and racism, regional specialisation: Europe
Current research projects / activities
Finnish Academy Fellow. Project on On "Glocal" governance: On the meanings and consequences of the "vernacularization" of Human Rights Concepts
Challenging Power - Power in Finland (CEREN, university of Helsinki)http://sockom.helsinki.fi/ceren/power/index.html
Poga the language survival network homepagehttp://www2.hu-berlin.de/poga/
EU project ELDIA (European Language Diversity for All) http://www.eldia-project.org/index.php?lang=en
Human rights education and national minorities in Europe (Humboldt University in Berlin) (2003-2007)
Member of the Expert Group for the UN Speacial Rapporteur on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
Vice-president of the International Human rights Education Consortium (www.ihrec.org)